4. Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren accuses the GOP of ‘hostage taking’ over the US government shutdown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxbBoxwgY4o

5. Ed Miliband reads a story in the Sunday Sport accusing his late father Ralph of killing a kitten

6. During House of Commons tributes to former PM Margaret Thatcher, Labour MP Glenda Jackson broke ranks with the majority of her colleagues and delivered an impassioned speech in which she attacked the lagacy of “Thatcherism”

7. Can a colourful character like Toronto Mayor Rob Ford really be reduced to a single video? I don’t think so, so instead here is a compilation of what the controversial politician got up to this year

8. American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones joined Times columnist David Aaronovitch to discuss the secretive Bilderberg Group back in June – and ended up being the “worst person” host Andrew Neil had ever interviewed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB7ZaK7Oa88

9. Former United States secretary of the treasury Larry Summers gave George Osborne’s economic strategy something of a pasting on Newsnight back in March

10. In a week where the Daily Mail accused Labour leader Ed Miliband’s late father of ‘hating Britain’, Mehdi Hasan gave the paper both barrels on BBC Question Time